Chinese Character Wiki
呬

xì

breathe

Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 四 represents the sound.

Components
口 meaning component

口  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

四 sound,iconic component

四  Sound Iconic component

sì

  

four

Depicts breathing through the nose.

Evolution

呬 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
呬 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

呬  

xì

to rest; to breathe; to gasp

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+546C

Shuowen

“呬，東夷謂息為呬。从口，四聲。《詩》曰：‘犬夷呬矣。’”


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